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Dairy Chitchat 3

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    #7982
    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    Cows back out yesterday till 2 pm out today till milking at 3.

    65 cows calved in the last 36 hours, three sets of twins one was a first calver and all twins were heifers. Delighted with that.

    First calver not gone to grass, on straw bed and oad milking with extra rations for the next week.


    42% calved
    49% heifer calves

    If ya don't mind me asking, how many cows have ya? Just from reading your recent posts it sounds like a serious operation


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    #7983
    Waffletraktor
    Registered Users Posts: 2,424 ✭✭✭Waffletraktor


    roosterman71 wrote: »
    If ya don't mind me asking, how many cows have ya? Just from reading your recent posts it sounds like a serious operation

    Wasnt JP McManus asked something similar once about horses. He wouldnt be sure exactly how many ,but would know if one was missing.


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    #7984
    ruwithme
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭ruwithme


    roosterman71 wrote: »
    If ya don't mind me asking, how many cows have ya? Just from reading your recent posts it sounds like a serious operation

    Could be the featured dairy farmer over on agriland today?


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    #7985
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,166 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    ruwithme wrote: »
    Could be the featured dairy farmer over on agriland today?

    No hes from Meath


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    #7986
    Sacrolyte
    Registered Users Posts: 851 ✭✭✭Sacrolyte


    When folk ask me how many cows I’m milking I usually reply. “All of them!”


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    #7987
    einn32
    Registered Users Posts: 990 ✭✭✭einn32


    Was up visiting friends in Northern Victoria, Australia. It's desolate up there on the farm. No summer crops, no irrigation and reduced hours. Milk price is good but input costs are killing them. Most importnatly the price of water. Fonterra have made a lot of farmers angry looking for part of their previous payouts back from farmers following in the footsteps of Murray Golburn. Fonterra have a newly kitted out cheese plant but are struggling for milk for it! Seems to be a case of last man standing for dairy up there.


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    #7988
    liosnagceann75
    Registered Users Posts: 407 ✭✭liosnagceann75


    Sacrolyte wrote: »
    When folk ask me how many cows I’m milking I usually reply. “All of them!”

    The same number as last year


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    #7989
    roosterman71
    Registered Users Posts: 5,382 ✭✭✭roosterman71


    Jaysus I didn't know it was such a personal thing to ask how many cows a farmer had. I was just impressed by the numbers that were quoted for calving in 36 hours. Seemed savage work to keep on top of it all. I don't get the secrecy about it at all


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    #7990
    Lime Tree Farm
    Registered Users Posts: 2,646 ✭✭✭Lime Tree Farm


    I heard a very pretty girl, an only child, reply when asked how many acres her father had, said "40 acres, when the tide is out".


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    #7991
    straight
    Registered Users Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭straight


    roosterman71 wrote: »
    Jaysus I didn't know it was such a personal thing to ask how many cows a farmer had. I was just impressed by the numbers that were quoted for calving in 36 hours. Seemed savage work to keep on top of it all. I don't get the secrecy about it at all

    Well, usually the big guys love to tell you how many they have. Makes the rest of us feel a little inadequate at times you know.


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    #7992
    Panch18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    Nowadays it doesn't really matter how many cows you have.

    In the quota years, anything from 80 up was a big herd - and if you had over 120 you were massive

    Nowadays there are herds of 300, 400 or even 500 cows popping up everywhere - so a fella is only big until the next bigger herd pops up.

    In today's dairy world of numbers numbers numbers - does the number even matter anymore


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    #7993
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,166 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Panch18 wrote: »
    Nowadays it doesn't really matter how many cows you have.

    In the quota years, anything from 80 up was a big herd - and if you had over 120 you were massive

    Nowadays there are herds of 300, 400 or even 500 cows popping up everywhere - so a fella is only big until the next bigger herd pops up.

    In today's dairy world of numbers numbers numbers - does the number even matter anymore

    Indeed, who gives a fook.


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    #7994
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    whelan2 wrote: »
    Indeed, who gives a fook.

    I've herd some aspire to have 1,000 cows.

    I'm not sure what'll happen though when they finally do get their chompers on that car tyre.?


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    #7995
    GrasstoMilk
    Registered Users Posts: 3,853 ✭✭✭GrasstoMilk


    How long does the genotyping take to come back for bull calves?.


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    #7996
    Snowfire
    Registered Users Posts: 352 ✭✭Snowfire


    Say my name wrote: »
    I've herd some aspire to have 1,000 cows.

    I'm not sure what'll happen though when they finally do get their chompers on that car tyre.?

    ‪Don’t Chase Happiness. Recognize It. https://www.becomingminimalist.com/recognizing-happiness/ via ‬


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    #7997
    Snowfire
    Registered Users Posts: 352 ✭✭Snowfire


    GrasstoMilk wrote: »
    How long does the genotyping take to come back for bull calves?.

    At least 4 weeks


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    #7998
    JeffKenna
    Registered Users Posts: 4,524 ✭✭✭JeffKenna


    Panch18 wrote: »
    Nowadays it doesn't really matter how many cows you have.

    In the quota years, anything from 80 up was a big herd - and if you had over 120 you were massive

    Nowadays there are herds of 300, 400 or even 500 cows popping up everywhere - so a fella is only big until the next bigger herd pops up.

    In today's dairy world of numbers numbers numbers - does the number even matter anymore

    Deep


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    #7999
    mengele
    Registered Users Posts: 871 ✭✭✭mengele


    I'd love to know what profit these a fellows with 3, 4 or 500 cows are taking out of the farm each year.


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    #8000
    Panch18
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,471 ✭✭✭Panch18


    JeffKenna wrote: »
    Deep

    I know - couldn't believe I'd written it myself!! Think the late nights and early mornings are getting to me


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    #8001
    mahoney_j
    Registered Users Posts: 11,096 ✭✭✭✭mahoney_j


    mengele wrote: »
    I'd love to know what profit these a fellows with 3, 4 or 500 cows are taking out of the farm each year.

    As with the numbers who cares .


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    #8002
    Keepgrowing
    Registered Users Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭Keepgrowing


    mengele wrote: »
    I'd love to know what profit these a fellows with 3, 4 or 500 cows are taking out of the farm each year.

    There taking out no profit, just a salary same as any business.

    How much profit is made per cow is the question?


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    #8003
    Keepgrowing
    Registered Users Posts: 2,485 ✭✭✭Keepgrowing


    Say my name wrote: »
    I've herd some aspire to have 1,000 cows.

    I'm not sure what'll happen though when they finally do get their chompers on that car tyre.?

    The beauty of human kind is we are all different and all have different goals in life. The key is to enjoy it


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    #8004
    Say my name
    Registered Users Posts: 11,157 ✭✭✭✭Say my name


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    The beauty of human kind is we are all different and all have different goals in life. The key is to enjoy it

    And to leave humanity and the world in a better place than whence we found it..


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    #8005
    Snowfire
    Registered Users Posts: 352 ✭✭Snowfire


    Say my name wrote: »
    And to leave humanity and the world in a better place than whence we found it..

    Woo woo.. I never agreed to that...!


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    #8006
    wrangler
    Registered Users Posts: 11,075 ✭✭✭✭wrangler


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    The beauty of human kind is we are all different and all have different goals in life. The key is to enjoy it

    Well,........ have you reached your first thousand cows.
    .Btw, well done on saturday morning,didn't expect anything different.
    Nearly made me proud to be a farmer ........ and y'know the job that'd be


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    #8007
    straight
    Registered Users Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭straight


    Keepgrowing wrote: »
    There taking out no profit, just a salary same as any business.

    How much profit is made per cow is the question?

    Profit?


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    #8008
    Water John
    Registered Users Posts: 21,155 ✭✭✭✭Water John


    A man in my part of the country in the 1960s was known as, 28 cows and a bull, as that was his regular boast.


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    #8009
    whelan2
    Registered Users Posts: 29,166 ✭✭✭✭whelan2


    Water John wrote: »
    A man in my part of the country in the 1960s was known as, 28 cows and a bull, as that was his regular boast.

    I think it used to be how many milk cans you left out at the stand was the willy waving way back them


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    #8010
    straight
    Registered Users Posts: 4,573 ✭✭✭straight


    whelan2 wrote: »
    I think it used to be how many milk cans you left out at the stand was the willy waving way back them

    Father tells me there was always one bollix with a load of them all half full. Creamery worker fooked him out of it one morning for his notions.


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    #8011
    Buford T. Justice XIX
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,633 ✭✭✭✭Buford T. Justice XIX


    straight wrote: »
    Father tells me there was always one bollix with a load of them all half full. Creamery worker fooked him out of it one morning for his notions.

    My father had loads of stories about the creameries back in the day. One lad was talking to the manager while the manager was sucking up the milk with the hose when the hose stopped sucking the milk. The manager lifted out the hose and there was a dead cat stopping the milk going into the hose. Still talking away to the farmer, the manager pulled off the cat and threw it into a corner and put the hose back in again and worked away.

    Just as the lad was getting off the platform, the manager told him to put the fcuking cover on the tanks at night before he runs out of cats:D


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